Crop Circles

Okay, just when I have decided that crop circles were, perhaps, man-made after all, this story comes along....

"During the night of 13-14 May 2008, three large circles appeared in a wheat field at Nieuw-Vennep, very close to Schiphol airport in the Netherlands. The owners of the field heard nothing. Their dogs didn't bark, their horses and graze remained calm. Yet, in the early morning hours and to his astonishment, the farmer found the fresh circles in the field right behind their house."

"I feel it is almost impossible to provide a clear image of what I saw. First of all, as mentioned above, the majority of the plants in all three circles had been badly scorched, burnt, or even entirely turned to black dust."

Come on, boys and girls, this is not the work of the jolly fellows down at the local tavern. This is something entirely alien to our feeble comprehension. That is unless you believe the jolly fellows are using blowtorches along with their boards and ropes.

Crop circles are a fecund area for research. Unlike UFO sightings, evidence is plentiful at crop circle sites. The only drawback is our ability or desire to interpret the evidence.

And the people who actually seek to explain crop circles, like Linda Moulton Howe, are denigrated and ridiculed by those who know best. You know who you are.